Section C
Directions: Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with the word or words you have heard.
The bulk of experience of recent years is that foreign direct investment brings important advantages through new technologies and enhanced ____________ to overseas markets, stimulating production and trade. Foreign investment, like domestic investment, increases income and employment in the process of capital formation and in due course increases capacity to reach even higher income levels after capital has been formed. The gains from trade liberalization can be enhanced by allowing investment to pursue the more ____________ production capabilities from comparative advantage and hence achieve also the ____________ consumption possibilities associated with trade. If markets are functioning efficiently, foreign investment, like foreign trade, increases global economic welfare and can also eventually help to equalize the returns to the different ____________. Wi
Section C
Directions: Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with the word or words you have heard.
Many nations have ports where ships from other countries can unload goods for trade, storage, processing, or ( ) to another ship. Merchants who send their goods to the port of a foreign country usually pay a ( ) , or tax, on their goods as soon as they are unloaded from the ship. However, some countries have free ports, and others, like the United States and China, have foreign trade zones. A free port may be an entire port city where foreign merchants may unload their goods without paying a tariff. In most instances it is( )of a port. As long as the goods remain in the free-port area, or foreign-trade zone, they cannot be taxed.
Nations have tariffs to protect their own merchants and manufacturers from ( ).
If a foreign merchant must pay a tax on his goods, he must charge more for them. In this w
Section A
Directions: Listen to the following dialogue and fill in the blanks with the word or words you have heard.
Wang: Can I help you
Foreigner: No, _________________. I’ve got my ticket, so I’m all set.
Wang: Can I ask where you are going
Foreigner: Right now to Xi’an. I’ve just come from Suzhou, and before that from Shanghai and Beijing.
Wang: Wow! So many places. I’m Chinese and I haven’t even been to so many places.
Foreigner: Well, I’ve always _________________ traveling in China. I’ve been working for a long time to save enough money to come.
Wang: But you look so young! What kind of work do you do
Foreigner: I study East Asian History, and I also work in a Japanese restaurant, you know, to pay _________________ and get some practical experience. I’ve been working there since I was 16.
Wang: You study and work at the same time You must be so busy. Why w
Section B
Directions: Listen to the tape and translate the sentences into Chinese.
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Section A Directions: This section is to test your ability to understand short dialogues. There are 5 recorded dialogues in it. After each dialogue, there is a recorded question. Both the dialogues and the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, you should decide on the correct answer from the 4 choices marked A) ,B) , C)and D) given in your test paper. Then you should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
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